The IEEE
Orange County Computer Society
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Welcome to the IEEE Orange County Chapter of The
Computer Society.
Information
about the Orange County Chapter of the Computer Society and
the activities we sponsor are listed below.
For more
information please contact the OCCS Officers
Upcoming
Meetings
IEEE
Orange County Computer Society (OCCS)
Presents
The Art and Science in Feature Film Animation
| Date: |
March 22, 2010 (usually the 4th Monday of the month) |
| Topic: |
Tools and techniques used for physics-based visual effects.
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| Speaker: |
Akash Garg, a senior Research Engineer at Dreamworks Animation. |
| Time: |
| Social Hour: |
6:00 p.m. |
| Dinner: |
6:30 p.m. |
| Presentation: |
7:00 p.m. |
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| Location: |
The
Doubletree Club Orange County Airport
7 Hutton Centre Drive,
Santa Ana, CA, 92707-5794
714-751-2400
Click
for a Map |
| Cost: |
| Cost of dinner for: |
w/ RSVP |
no RSVP |
| Member |
$25.00 |
$30.00 |
Student or Unemployed
Member |
$20.00 |
$30.00 |
| Non-Member |
$30.00 |
$35.00 |
Presentation Only (FREE)
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$0
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$0
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| RSVP |
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ABSTRACT
Computer
graphics is a field unique in its medley of science, art, and
engineering. Modeling the shape and physical behavior of the world
around us has a long and illustrious history; and with the advancement
of computers it has become possible to create awe-inspiring effects for
the purposes of compelling story telling. However, one must often find
compromises between physically accurate models, computational
limitations, and artistically driven content.
In his talk he will give an overview of the technology that goes on
behind the scenes to generate compelling visual effects for feature
animated films. The focus of the talk will be on the tools and
techniques used for physics-based visual effects and illustrate these
ideas with a number of applications ranging from geometric modeling and
fluid simulation.
BIOGRAPHY
Akash Garg is a Senior Research Engineer at Dreamworks Animation
where he works on the computational aspects of geometry and physical
simulation for applications in modeling, rendering, and animation. He
completed his graduate studies at Columbia University in New York, NY
where he worked on developing efficient computational models for
thin-shell simulation, i.e., the simulation of materials such as cloth,
sheet-metal, paper, etc. His research interests include exploring how
geometric insights can be used to develop computational models for
physical simulation, computer animation, and geometry processing.
IEEE
Orange County Computer Society (OCCS)
Presents
Introduction to ScenGen
| Date: |
April 26, 2010 (usually the 4th Monday of the month) |
| Topic: |
A Scenario
Generator that can generate all possibilities for any given circumstance
defined in its modeling language.
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| Speaker: |
Walter
O'Brien, Founder and CEO of Scorpion Computer Services. |
| Time: |
| Social Hour: |
6:00 p.m. |
| Dinner: |
6:30 p.m. |
| Presentation: |
7:00 p.m. |
|
| Location: |
The
Doubletree Club Orange County Airport
7 Hutton Centre Drive,
Santa Ana, CA, 92707-5794
714-751-2400
Click
for a Map |
| Cost: |
| Cost of dinner for: |
w/ RSVP |
no RSVP |
| Member |
$25.00 |
$30.00 |
Student or Unemployed
Member |
$20.00 |
$30.00 |
| Non-Member |
$30.00 |
$35.00 |
Presentation Only (FREE)
|
$0
|
$0
|
|
| RSVP |
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ABSTRACT
Walter has
created many software inventions including a globalization engine that aids
translation of any natural language from any machine language on any platform
and a Governance model for rapid large organization transformation for
regulatory compliance. Walter's latest invention "ScenGen" is a
Scenario Generator that can generate all possibilities for any given
circumstance defined in its modeling language. ScenGen has many applications
including that it finally makes it possible to ensure 100% coverage against
functional defects in a piece of software or test that there is no single point
of failure (SPOF) in a network. Walter will explain ScenGen as well as its
application areas.
BIOGRAPHY
Walter
O'Brien is the Founder and CEO of Scorpion Computer Services, a 20 year old IT
consulting firm. Walter is an expert in the application of computer science and
artificial intelligence to solve industry challenges. He was born in Ireland
and at sixteen ranked number one in national high speed computer problem
solving competitions. At the age of eighteen he competed in the World Olympics
in Informatics and has ranked as high as sixth fastest programmer in the world.
He was a child prodigy with an IQ of 197. He received a Bachelor of Science
degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence with honors from Sussex
University. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security certified Walter as being
of National Interest to the United States Economy and granted him an
Extraordinary Ability EB 1-1 Visa (also granted to Albert Einstein and Winston
Churchill). Walter has worked with companies such as Capital Group Companies,
Fujitsu, Microsoft-Trados and Oracle. Walter currently serves as a member of
the Board of Directors for the public renewable energy company American
Environmental Inc.
Membership
If you are not a member of the
Computer Society, please consider joining (Click
Here) and help grow our
society.
Joining the Computer
Society as a member provides numerous opportunities for networking and
working with other professionals with similar professional interests.
Furthermore, if you
are interested in participating in the Orange County Executive
Committee as a volunteer, please subscribe to the mailing list given later in this page.
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Sponsors
If you or your company
would like to make a donation or sponsor local non-profit events,
please contact the OCCS
Chairman. Sponsors can have their logos added to the OCCS website,
announcement emails and related event flyers.
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Meeting space for Executive Committee Meetings provided by:
Archives
Video Podcasts
Other
Archives
Download
the
Mike Acton [Insomniac Games]
02/23/09 presentation:
Developing Software for the PS3/Cell Platform
or click
here to view the presentation video (120MB).
Download
Dr Elliot E. Hui's 01/26/09 presentation:
Leveraging Semiconductor Micro-fabrication in Cell Biology
or click
here to view the presentation video (488MB).
Download
Jeff Greenberg's
10/27/08 presentation:
Commercializing
Your Invention
or click
here to view the presentation video (136MB).
Download
Gordon Watson's
09/24/07 presentation:
Entrepreneurship
For Engineers
Download
William Fisher's 06/25/07
presentation:
Mobile
Game Development: True Stories from the Front Lines
Download
Dr Stephen Jenks'
01/22/07 presentation:
Multi-threading
for Multi-core Architectures
Download Brian Fargo's 10/23/06 presentation:
How to Survive
in the Video Game Business
Download Dr John
Preskill's 11/28/05 Quantum Computing presentation:
Putting
Weirdness to Work: Quantum Information Science
Download Dr Larry Smarr's 10/24/05
After the Internet presentation:
The OptIPuter
Project, From the Grid to the LambdaGrid
Click here for six years
of IEEE-OC Computer Society Past Presentations, online.
Other Information
Click
On Calendar in the left panel for a monthly
calendar of local IEEE events. RED Listings are your local IEEE Chapter events. BLUE listings are non-IEEE events.
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OC
Computer Society (OCCS) Executive Committee meetings are held on the
third Monday of the month. To attend this month's meeting, please
contact OCCS Chairman listed in the Officers Page.
Continuing Education Units (CEU's)
For
some presentatons, members can acquire 0.2 Continuing Education Units
in a frameable certificate from the IEEE, for $20.00. The CEU's will be
registered with the IEEE and the IACET. The certificates will be
provided by the chapter in about 6 weeks. Request the CEU certificate
application at the door when you register for the presentation.
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